M106

[moonshinegnomie]

M106 located about 23 million light years away. the galaxy is about as luminous and as large as the andromeda galaxy but is 10x as far away as andromeda
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[2naSalit]

1. These are all amazing...

The nights will be getting noticeably short as we approach the equinox, do you switch to closer subjects during summer?

[moonshinegnomie]

2. not really

different times of the year tend to have different types of object.
right know we are heading into what called galaxy season,when the best object tend to be galaxies. besides these there the whirlpool and pinwheel galaxies (which are my next targets,im finishing editing on the pinwheel and have my scope shooting the whirlpool tonight.

summer is the milky way and a lot of object in it like the lagoon and trifid nebulas. winter bring things like orion

distance isnt teh limiting factor, its brightness and size. distance object tend to be very small and my scope is only a focal length of 500mm with a crop sensor camera so its not really suiltable for planets for example or a lot of small nembula. i tend not to shoo tthings smaller than an angular diameter of 5-7 arc minutes. (the full moon for example is 30 arc minutes. the andromeda galaxy is about 180 arc minutes wide.

[2naSalit]

3. Oh...

I actually understand the basics of all that. Makes sense. I don't know where much of your pictures' subject are relative to our galaxy so that brief explaner was helpful, thanks.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. So beautiful even though it's far away. Thanks for sharing this wonderful photo! ...n/t